[LightDM] Proposal: Drop ConsoleKit support from lightdm 1.14

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> [2014-11-14 03:11]:
> On 13 November 2014 12:22, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> 
> > * Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> [2014-11-12 23:59]:
> > > I've heard no opposition so I've now removed ConsoleKit support from
> > > LightDM trunk. The next release (1.13.1) will contain this change.
> >
> > FYI, two things have changed since your announcement, a recent
> > beta of the Illumos-based XStreamOS[1] now uses LightDM (so LightDM
> > has been ported to a Solaris-based platform which will never
> > support systemd) and ConsoleKit is now being maintained again by
> > an Xfce developer[2].
> >
> 
> Thanks for the information Guido, I wasn't aware of these changes (that's
> the purpose of asking on the list!). I've reverted the removal of
> ConsoleKit and we can revisit this proposal in 1.15 after seeing how these
> projects go.

Thanks for your consideration! I'll see if I can get the involved
porters to monitor this list from time to time.

> I hope ConsoleKit2 grows a logind interface so that we can just support one
> interface in the future.

I think it is rather intended as a stopgap until projects like
systembsd develop a logind interface.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster